G20 ministers met in Brazil last week to discuss “misinformation”, just as the country ramps up the censorship in an escalating ‘war’ with Elon Musk’s X. Reclaim the Net has the story.
It took no time for G20 to show which side it’s taking in the battle between a Government given to online censorship and in clear need of controlling the political and media narratives, versus a major social platform that has broken ranks with its peers as an obedient executioner of censorship, including on behalf of various governments.
G20 ministers who converged on Maceio in northern Brazil late last week didn’t quite spell all this out (does anybody speak clearly anymore? The higher, the fewer, as they say).
But, the writing is clearly on the wall: a statement issued on Friday is chock-full of words such as “misinformation,” AI (and coming up with new regulation around this) and digital platforms’ “accountability”.
There is even talk of the need for online platforms to place themselves “in line with relevant policies and applicable legal frameworks”.
Was this written by Brazil’s Government, or by G20, some might wonder, half-amused? However, the story is not amusing – one of the persistent arguments coming out of X is that the seemingly incessant flow of censorship demands is in fact breaking Brazil’s own Constitution and applicable law.
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The crucial fact is that the whole concept of “disinformation” was invented in Communist Russia.
““The dissemination of deliberately false information, esp. when supplied by a government or its agent to a foreign power or to the media, with the intention of influencing the policies or opinions of those who receive it” [OED], 1955, from Russian dezinformatsiya (1949), which is said to be from French désinformation, but the French word is not as old as the Russian one.”
Deliberately false information was already a prominent feature of British wartime propaganda during the first world war.
Attached image: Supposedly realistic English depiction of a German soldier as proud ‘conqueror’ of unarmed women and children in front of a torched village.
Well I’m convinced.Evil bosche!
Look at that slogan on the wall behind them: “building a just world and a sustainable planet”. This is how the modern tyrants use words. What it means is “we are the great and the good, and the morally superior; give us the power and we will solve all the world’s problems”. Apparently, a “just world” can be brought into being without free and open debate. And what on earth is a “sustainable planet”?
Yes, and look at that Poisonous Gnome Lula spouting off as their “leader”.
It’s a planet where the capitalist idea of free enterprise and the liberal notion of free people have been abolished because people simply can’t be trusted to make their own decisions on anything. They’re bound to f**k it up horribly in the long run and only careful planning by experts can save the planet and everything on it from impending doom. As already pointed out yesterday: That’s the hollow-eyed spectre of real existierender Sozialismus (real-world socialism), the political system invented for USSR after the utopian ideas of paradise through world revolution had been abandoned, raising its ugly head again. Which is not very surprising, considering that the roots of all of this come from the western communists of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
It means a 21st century version of Communism. These people believe Communism only failed because it wasn’t applied everywhere.
WEF….”We own the science and I think you should know it”…..They certainly do!
”Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy”. It’s small wonder the people who hate free speech also hate Elon Musk. I think he’s just pipping Trump to the post on this one, and that’s saying something, but as Musk owns X then that makes him officially the world’s most hated man, according to the globalist tyrants, anyway, because how can he not pose a significant threat to them? He wields a great deal of power and unlike them, he’s using it for the good of the people. No other platform comes close to X/Twitter for allowing any and all types of discussion and sharing of information.
If we look at the people/organizations who are obsessed with censoring us and abusing our right to freedom of speech and expression none of them are good people, are they? Just look at anybody’s motivation behind why they’d like nothing better than to suppress dissenting voices and silence debate in the public sphere, with people from all sides having a turn at sharing their views. They’re all control freak, narcissistic megalomaniacs with an agenda to push and they don’t take kindly to being challenged, fact checked or contradicted. It’s because they’re shit scared of us. That’s why they myopically focus on division as their objective, because unity of the people is their kryptonite.
I like Elon Musk because he drops truth bombs about all of the ‘official narratives’ we’re being assaulted with all over the place and is on the same page as most of us, such as the dreaded woke mind virus;
“To summarize the woke mind virus, It consists of creating very, very divisive identity politics.
It actually amplifies racism, it amplifies, frankly, sexism and all the -isms.
While claiming to do the opposite, it actually divides people and makes them hate each other, and it makes people hate themselves.
And it’s also anti-meritocratic.
It’s not merit-based.
You want to have people succeed based on how hard they work and their talents, not who they are.
Whether they’re a man, woman, what race or gender.
It’s an artificial mental civil war that’s created.
And let me tell you, it’s no fun, okay?
Woke mind virus and fun are incompatible.
There’s no fun in that.
No joy.
The woke mind virus is all about condemning people instead of celebrating people.
You know, like when in the work, it just doesn’t celebrate.
It’s all about condemning and being divisive and I think it’s just evil, frankly.”
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1836008596817014864
I like what this guy has to say in this mini clip as a reasonable alternative to censoring. It’s basically what’s happening on Twitter now and lets people make up their own mind. You are never going to get 100% perfect truth consistently but censoring is the very worst thing you can do because then you take away different perspectives and people’s right to choose and decide for themselves what to believe/think;
https://x.com/Fidias0/status/1836007183315599556
So who hates free speech and is all about the censorship? Too many to choose from so here’s a few predictable examples;
”At a time where millions of Americans are concerned about free speech, where does Kamala Harris stand??
She thinks it’s justified to censor speech over their political definitions of “hate” and “misinformation”
HARRIS: “We will go after Social Media companies”
https://x.com/CraigChamberlin/status/1831713602157338632
Her +1. Personally, I think all of these people are cut from the same cloth and can be collectively referred to a communists. They wish us harm, end of;
https://x.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1836120894680502458
”BREAKING: Hillary Clinton suggests jailing Americans for posting “misinformation”
“There needs to be deterrence”
I suspect Hillary is inspired by what she’s been seeing in the UK, with your two-tier policing and injustice system;
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1835873305670128099
If you write clinton in caps, and then severely reduce the kerning, the first part of the resulting mush gives my views on this utter idiot and her cronies.
What you state, Trump, I’m assuming didn’t use. An open goal!
They always use ‘harm’ as an excuse to censor, but the real harms have been from Governments, especially since 2020. They don’t entertain the notion of a government having total control of all information as dangerous.
“We control matter because we control the mind”
A meeting by the World Government people to see if they can figure out how to stop ordinary people having opinions that put their World Government tyranny under the microscope. You know that when people want to cut out your tongue that they are trying to hide the truth. Free exchange of ideas and opinions is something they will and are seeking to stop. —-All for our own good ofcourse.
These are just humans, (well I think they are), they are paid to serve us, to do our bidding not theirs, we the people are not here to serve them or to fear them, its the other way around, let us not forget that. They don’t get to rule us like Dictators, they don’t get to treat us like slaves, which is what they are attempting to do. We are billions, they are a few thousand and so if we don’t want their tyranny we just refuse, we carry on regardless and they will face the thing they fear the most, the loss of their power, position and income.
That seems to be what ‘Covid’ and the Reset (build back better, things can never be normal again…Why?) is all about.
Is it any surprise that the disinformation rhetoric should come from the G20. Look at the membership where the vast majority are from countries that support total population control, and those who aspire to it. The BRICS associated countries are growing in number and so is their influence where the G7 is loosing its prominence, economically, industrially, democratically. How much worse can it get one may ask. Consider the most oppressive regime in history and then add modern technology.
Brazil seems to be in the vanguard of attempts to control technologies. Why Brazil Can it be linked to the (heavily redacted) contract between Brazil and Pfizer mentioning that the Brazilian state was required to pledge infrastructure as collateral for the deal? What was that all about? Is the Brazilian state in hock to the US?